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(★)(Translated from the Japanese by Beongcheon Yu／ Titulo original : 行人[Koojin]」／ ´The Wayfarer´, a modern classic of Japanese literature, was written in the years 1912 to 1913, and perhaps best represents Sooseki the man and the artist. The protagonist Ichiro is caught in a triangle with his wife Onao and his brother Jiro. Sooseki´s novels deal with man´s effort to escape from loneliness, and in ´The Wayfarer´, the hero is driven almost to madness by his sense of isolation. It was through Sooseki that the modern realistic novel took root in Japan. Steeped in Oriental lore and nurtured in European literature, he did more than anyone else to infuse much needed vigor into modern Japanese writing.／ ◆Sooseki Natsume (1867-1916) is considered the greatest novelist of the Meiji era and one of Japan´s finest modern writers. Educated at Tokyo Imperial University, he was sent to England in 1900 as a government scholar. he returned to Japan three years later and became a full-time writer in 1907, after teaching English literature at the Imperial University. As one of the first writers to be influenced by Western culture, his various works are read by virtually all Japanese, and contemporary Japanese writers continue to be affected by his ´oeuvre´. Although Sooseki claimed he was largely uninfluenced by his native literary tradition, his works retain a unique Japanese flavor.／ Beongcheon Yu was born in Korea, attended the First Higher School in Tokyo, Japan, and received his A.B. from Seoul National University, Korea. His A.M. degree was obtained at the University of Kansas City, and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He is an associate professor of English at Wayne State University.) |
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